ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,109, issued on June 17, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Antigen binding molecule formats" was invented by Tong Zhang (New Rochelle, N.Y.), Erica Pyles (New City, N.Y.), Michael Rosconi (New City, N.Y.), Nina Liu (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Supriya Patel (Elmsford, N.Y.), Eric Smith (New York), Andrew Murphy (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Chia-Yang Lin (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Samuel Davis (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antigen binding molecules (ABMs) comprising Fab domains in non-native configurations, ABM conjugates comprising the ABMs and cytotoxic or cytostatic agents, pharmaceutical compositions conta...